It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals – grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God’s blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
I shall not grow conservative with age.